Little Plantlets: Just Like Their Mother

Pink Heliconia is parthenogenic. That means it makes little plantlets on the dying flower. Daylilies and other plants do it too. All are exactly the same as their mother.  You can take those off and put them in nursery pots.  On the day we picked the pink ginger plantlets, my friend Gillaine gave them away…

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Unwritten Plant History

I get to hang out with a lot of old guys.  I love them; they teach me.  But they also remind me that there’s a whole lost generation of men in between us, who should have been my mentors too. My imagination and awe for the WWII guys has been overstimulated this week.  I’m stunned…

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